Kiser v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 7 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 1999 · most notably Nicholas J. Larionoff, Jr. v. The United States of America, Nicholas J. Larionoff, Jr. v. The United States of America (1976), The Wilderness Society v. Rogers C. B. Morton, Secretary of the Interior (1974)
14 federal appellate · 7 district · 5 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Mills v. Electric Auto-Lite Co. · Sprage v. Ticonic Nat Bank · Vaughan v. Atkinson · Roark v. Lewis · Rolax v. Atlantic Coast Line R. Co.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The work remaining in the case consists of the argument in the Court of Appeals (briefs already filed) and the resolution of the minor dispute as to whether the 310 miners or their estates are valid members of the class. In this regard the United Mine Workers of America and the Defendant Trustees were ordered on August 1, 1973 to go into the field and assist these people in the preparation and filing of applications to determine whether they were valid members of this class and thus entitled to the benefits (Tr. 51-52). This directive eliminates the need for extended future services on the part of counsel. 85”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kiser v. Huge · Kiser v. Huge“entire Fund benefited from this suit with the prevention of general fiduciary abuse and improvement of the institutional functioning of the Fund as an entity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stephen Pete on Behalf of Himself and All Others Similarly Situated, Louis Belton, Plaintiff-Intervenor-Appellees v. United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirement Fund of 1950, Slimp Kiser, on Behalf of Himself and All Others Similarly Situated v. Harry Huge, and United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirementfund of 1950, Slimp Kiser, on Behalf of Himself and All Other Persons Who Have Been Deniedpension Payments From the United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirementfund v. W. A. Boyle · Linquist v. Bowen“lack the sophistication, experience and education to act understandingly and deal with their attorneys on an equal basis at arms length.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stephen Pete on Behalf of Himself and All Others Similarly Situated, Louis Belton, Plaintiff-Intervenor-Appellees v. United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirement Fund of 1950, Slimp Kiser, on Behalf of Himself and All Others Similarly Situated v. Harry Huge, and United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirementfund of 1950, Slimp Kiser, on Behalf of Himself and All Other Persons Who Have Been Deniedpension Payments From the United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirementfund v. W. A. Boyle · Dunn v. H. K. Porter Co.
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.